beautiful, gradual development. i feel quite at home here, sonically, emptionally, and also in terms of the lo-fi and largely live looped technical aspect.

This is really, really lovely. Contains itself perfectly.

this is lush, and i love that you have the live component. you're making me want to work out how to use ableton's looper...

Solo Piano.  Created LIVE in Real-Time at St. Stanislaus Church, St. Loius MO.

Photo provided by Greg Carr, my brother.

Year of Music XIC

Year of Music: September 1, 2025

PABlo Bley, also known as Phoenixbird, is a multifaceted artist, musician, and technologist. He is a pianist, composer, and producer who works with spatial audio and sound healing. Bley is known for blending music with innovation, creating immersive sonic experiences useful for meditation, reflection, and inward journeys of mindfulness.

Why Is the Night Sky Dark?

Pianists Xenia Pestova and Pascal Meyer at contemporary music festival Ars Musica, Brussels, Belgium, 2018.

Textile 1 (2006) for two pianos came into being when Egidija Medeksaite discovered the technique of mapping the patterns she was using in her textile work onto musical structures. The initial formula for a composition is fixed in the form of a geometrical textile pattern; the white and black elements of the grid convey musical microformations of the same nature but in opposition (for example, the ascending or descending directions of the movement of sounds), as if they were warp and weft of a textile. What is important for pianist here is to achieve the smooth, flowing, encompassing flow of sounds, as if they were the play and sparkle of small crystals. 

Linas Paulauskis, Music Information Centre Lithuania

Textile_1

Jumped at suggestion from $ad for some vocal flow lines through my lost in space guitar. Thanks so much for yr inspired musings, $ad : )

Check out his amazing work here: https://soundcloud.com/avercoffee

music & mix - learningtoplay
lyrics and vocals - $ad

out there . . somewhere (ltp + $ad)

I've been holed up in my house for about 3 months now...working from home...working on lots of music. Tomorrow I return to my job. This is my last song from this very creative past few months.

Slipping Into A New Skin

Live video - https://youtu.be/o52uI1sa6AU
More about the project - lonelysounds.art/en/about/
Improvised in one take on Zoom Arq AR-48
Everything made from the weird or creepy sounds  recorded by:
Sylwia Szołtysek
Anastazja Sosnowska
Meezerpocalypse
Daniel Kusak
MultiCentrum MBP we Wrocławiu 
Laura Adel
Anna Porzyc
Dariusz Jackowski

Realized as part of Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage grants programme - Culture in the network.

Weird, Creepy

Equipment:YAMAHA Reface CP,Cooper Fx Outward V2,Chase Bliss Audio MOOD,Chase Bliss Audio Blooper,BOSS RV-5

humid night

A track from "Haunted Houses" album. Released by Laverna label. Digital copy is available for free download here: http://www.laverna.net/releases/Lav85.html

Composed, recorded and mixed by Alessandro Barbanera (march - july 2020)
Mastered by Francis M. Gri

"Haunted Houses" is a collection of seven tracks in slow, melancholy, dreamlike, nocturnal mood. It's a work made of waiting, of grainy sounds and silences full of rustles. It's a work talking about isolation, either in a physical and mental space; which talks about full spaces and empty or restricted spaces, of presences and absences, of memory and hope, of distances, of houses and rooms. Rooms innervated with restlessness and waiting (the opening track "Sleepless"). Houses where memories crowd, layered memories that coexist with the present (the title-track "Haunted Houses" is a short electroacoustic study on perception: indistinct, evanescent sounds, old pianos in the distance, confused and ectoplasmic voices, furniture that moves from the floor above, sighs...). And then there are presences such as those of literary characters, which can come to life in the mind while reading ("The death of Joe Christmas" is inspired by the restless and controversial character narrated by William Faulkner in "Light in August"). 
Even absences find space in the album, manifesting themselves in their impalpable distance (the piece "In Absence"), as memories of a past that has no place in the present. Then the rooms can become places overloaded with pain (the track "Torture Room"), where this suffering and effort can take an expiatory, spiritual, meditative form. And after all this inner torment, even isolation can turn into an opportunity for reflection, "redemption" and sincere change: the final tracks "Pure" and "Endless" try to capture this renewed spirit, following a strongly emotional path. “Endless” closes the circle, but it can also reopen it. 

"Haunted Houses" was made with guitars, contact microphones, an old cassette recorder, field recordings, dusty and grainy lo-fi sounds, found objects, recordings of streets at night, sounds of a carpentry workshop, slowed sounds, manipulation of loops of classical music taken from the radio. Every detail, every sound has been carved and polished day after day, chiseled and positioned with care and devotion, in a work of "sound craftsmanship".

Haunted Houses

Sleepless

Marco Lucchi : piano
Susan Matthews : electronics

a rework by Susan Matthews of some previous tracks by Marco Lucchi

for "piano patterns", a project by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns

settembre 2020

Marco Lucchi & Susan Matthews - piano patterns (combinations)

Sunday night guitar loops. Unlike other recent guitar loop experiments I've tried out, this one has a live component. After the first minute or so (which I'd already layered in advance of hitting record), new material is added and then later deleted. This setup consists of electric guitar, reverb pedal, overdrive, and looper, plus an eBow on occasion for those extended notes. After recording (amp to phone, live in the room), I used Adobe Audition to implement a fade in and a fade out, and for a little additional reverb.

Night (There and Back)

An experiment layering acoustic guitar and piano through delays
Photo by Demi-Felicia Vares

Tilted

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Night (There and Back)

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